[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":395},["ShallowReactive",2],{"landing.\u002Fcompare\u002Ffastio":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cardTitle":261,"comparison":262,"competitor":261,"cta":318,"description":323,"endCta":324,"extension":327,"eyebrow":328,"faq":329,"kind":345,"lastChecked":346,"meta":347,"navigation":348,"path":349,"position":253,"seo":350,"seoTitle":351,"sources":352,"stem":389,"summary":390,"__hash__":394},"pages\u002Fcompare\u002Ffastio.md","Fastio and Treehouse, side by side",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":250},"minimark",[9,14,18,21,25,34,47,50,63,66,70,83,86,90,129,133,159,163,166,247],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"how-they-differ","How they differ",[15,16,17],"p",{},"Fastio and Treehouse started from the same idea: people and agents should work in one place, on real files. Fastio describes itself as project workspaces for your team and AI agents. It comes from VividEngine, the company behind MediaFire, and it brings serious storage infrastructure with it.",[15,19,20],{},"The difference is in what each one is careful about. Fastio's strength is capacity and intelligence: large files, lots of storage, and an assistant that answers questions across your work. Treehouse's strength is keeping work safe when several people and agents are changing the same files, and being able to take it back.",[10,22,24],{"id":23},"what-happens-when-an-agent-gets-it-wrong","What happens when an agent gets it wrong",[15,26,27,28,33],{},"In Treehouse, every change is recorded against the key that made it, so you can ",[29,30,32],"a",{"href":31},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffiles\u002Fundo-an-agent","undo what one agent did"," across the whole workspace:",[35,36,37,41,44],"ul",{},[38,39,40],"li",{},"Choose the moment, and see a preview of every file before anything changes.",[38,42,43],{},"Edits are reversed, deleted files come back, renames are put back and new files go to the trash.",[38,45,46],{},"Changes by people and other agents stay as they are. A file someone else has since edited is left alone, and the preview tells you so.",[15,48,49],{},"An agent connected over MCP can undo its own work the same way, and nothing else. Undoing another key's work is for people, so an agent can't be talked into it by something it reads.",[15,51,52,53,57,58,62],{},"You can also ",[29,54,56],{"href":55},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffiles\u002Frestore-to-an-earlier-time","restore a folder or the whole workspace to an earlier time",", after seeing every change it will make, and bring deleted files back from the ",[29,59,61],{"href":60},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffiles\u002Ftrash","trash",".",[15,64,65],{},"Fastio records who did what in detail, and every edit creates a version you can restore. Its docs describe doing that one file at a time. On 30 October 2026 we found no documented way to reverse one agent's work across a workspace in one step.",[10,67,69],{"id":68},"what-happens-when-two-writers-collide","What happens when two writers collide",[15,71,72,73,77,78,82],{},"In Treehouse, an edit says which version it was based on. If the file has moved on, the write doesn't replace it: your content is kept as a ",[29,74,76],{"href":75},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffiles\u002Fconflicted-copies","conflicted copy",", and sync does this for you. ",[79,80,81],"code",{},"edit_file"," goes further, and still lands if someone else changed a different part of the file.",[15,84,85],{},"In Fastio, an upload overwrites by default, keeping the old content as a version. An agent can pass a version check to refuse a stale write, but that's opt-in, and Fastio's locks are advisory. Nothing is lost, because the old version remains, though someone has to notice. Its desktop client does make conflict copies when it needs to.",[10,87,89],{"id":88},"where-fastio-is-the-better-choice","Where Fastio is the better choice",[35,91,92,99,105,111,117,123],{},[38,93,94,98],{},[95,96,97],"strong",{},"You work with large files."," Video, design and raw data fit in Fastio's limits, not in Treehouse's 100 MB.",[38,100,101,104],{},[95,102,103],{},"You want answers from your files."," Ripley gives cited answers across a workspace, with nothing else to set up.",[38,106,107,110],{},[95,108,109],{},"You collect files from clients."," Receive and Exchange shares let outsiders upload. Treehouse links are read-only.",[38,112,113,116],{},[95,114,115],{},"You want branded client portals."," Fastio's portals and branding go further than Treehouse's themes.",[38,118,119,122],{},[95,120,121],{},"You comment on more than text."," Fastio anchors comments on images, video, audio and PDFs.",[38,124,125,128],{},[95,126,127],{},"You're watching the price per seat."," For most small teams, Fastio costs less and includes far more storage.",[10,130,132],{"id":131},"where-treehouse-is-the-better-choice","Where Treehouse is the better choice",[35,134,135,141,147,153],{},[38,136,137,140],{},[95,138,139],{},"Agents change your files, and mistakes matter."," One-step undo by key, and writes that don't quietly replace each other.",[38,142,143,146],{},[95,144,145],{},"Your work is mostly text."," Markdown stays a plain file, with wikilinks, comments on the exact words, folders as pages and boards from front matter.",[38,148,149,152],{},[95,150,151],{},"You want to start free."," No card, no trial clock, and no credits to track.",[38,154,155,158],{},[95,156,157],{},"You want local files you can use with anything."," A synced folder holds real files on disk, so Claude Code, an editor and your other tools read them at local speed. The sync CLI keeps folders in step on Linux and servers too, where Fastio's CLI reference lists no two-way sync.",[10,160,162],{"id":161},"what-it-costs","What it costs",[15,164,165],{},"Fastio's prices are for a plan, and Treehouse's are per member. On 30 October 2026, in US dollars:",[167,168,169,187],"table",{},[170,171,172],"thead",{},[173,174,175,178,181,184],"tr",{},[176,177],"th",{},[176,179,180],{},"Price",[176,182,183],{},"Seats",[176,185,186],{},"Storage",[188,189,190,205,219,233],"tbody",{},[173,191,192,196,199,202],{},[193,194,195],"td",{},"Fastio Starter",[193,197,198],{},"$9.99 a month, or $99 a year",[193,200,201],{},"Up to 3",[193,203,204],{},"250 GB",[173,206,207,210,213,216],{},[193,208,209],{},"Fastio Business",[193,211,212],{},"$49.99 a month, or $499 a year",[193,214,215],{},"Up to 10",[193,217,218],{},"5 TB",[173,220,221,224,227,230],{},[193,222,223],{},"Treehouse Seedling",[193,225,226],{},"Free",[193,228,229],{},"1",[193,231,232],{},"1 GB",[173,234,235,238,241,244],{},[193,236,237],{},"Treehouse Grove",[193,239,240],{},"$12 a member a month, or $10 billed yearly",[193,242,243],{},"Unlimited",[193,245,246],{},"50 GB a workspace",[15,248,249],{},"For a team of three, Fastio is under a third of the price. At ten people, it's less than half. Treehouse has no credits, and agents aren't charged for. Fastio's Starter and Business plans each include a monthly credit allowance for AI work, and usage above a plan is billed as overage.",{"title":251,"searchDepth":252,"depth":253,"links":254},"",2,3,[255,256,257,258,259,260],{"id":12,"depth":252,"text":13},{"id":23,"depth":252,"text":24},{"id":68,"depth":252,"text":69},{"id":88,"depth":252,"text":89},{"id":131,"depth":252,"text":132},{"id":161,"depth":252,"text":162},"Fastio",[263,267,271,275,278,282,286,290,294,298,302,306,310,314],{"label":264,"treehouse":265,"them":266},"Free plan","Seedling is free for one person, with 1 GB and 1,000 files.","None. A 14-day trial needs a card, and turns into a subscription early if trial credits run out.",{"label":268,"treehouse":269,"them":270},"Price for five people","Grove, $60 a month, or $50 billed yearly.","Business, $49.99 a month, or $499 a year. It covers up to 10 seats. Starter stops at 3.",{"label":272,"treehouse":273,"them":274},"How you pay","Per member. No credits. Agents are never members.","Per plan, with monthly credits for AI work that don't roll over. Usage above plan is billed as overage.",{"label":186,"treehouse":276,"them":277},"50 GB a workspace on Grove, 250 GB on Forest.","250 GB on Starter, 5 TB on Business, 25 TB on Enterprise.",{"label":279,"treehouse":280,"them":281},"Largest file","25 MB on Seedling, 100 MB on Grove and Forest.","25 GB, 50 GB or 100 GB, by plan.",{"label":283,"treehouse":284,"them":285},"Built-in AI","None. You bring your own agents.","Ripley, an assistant with cited answers, and Deep Indexing of documents and code.",{"label":287,"treehouse":288,"them":289},"Files on your computer","A two-way synced folder of real local files. Mac desktop app, plus a CLI for Windows, Linux and servers.","A desktop client that mounts workspaces in Finder, with on-demand files and offline pinning. It's pre-1.0, and its CLI reference lists no two-way folder sync.",{"label":291,"treehouse":292,"them":293},"Markdown","Always a plain file.","Files and notes are separate types, even for Markdown. Notes are capped at 100 KB.",{"label":295,"treehouse":296,"them":297},"MCP","One server, connected with an API key header.","Several endpoints, with OAuth or a key. 35 to 39 named tools, or 8 in code mode.",{"label":299,"treehouse":300,"them":301},"Stale writes","Edits send the version they read. A stale write is kept as a conflicted copy. Sync does this for you.","Uploads overwrite by default, keeping the old content as a version. A version check is optional, and locks are advisory.",{"label":303,"treehouse":304,"them":305},"Undoing an agent","Reverse everything one key changed across the workspace, in one step, keeping everyone else's edits. Preview it first.","Restore a file to a previous version, one file at a time. Its docs describe no bulk or per-agent undo.",{"label":307,"treehouse":308,"them":309},"Comments","On selected text in Markdown, answerable by agents.","Anchored on images, video, audio, PDFs and documents, which is wider.",{"label":311,"treehouse":312,"them":313},"Sharing","Read-only links, with a password and a pinned version.","Send, Receive and Exchange shares, plus branded portals, with passwords and expiry.",{"label":315,"treehouse":316,"them":317},"Security","Files encrypted at rest, with a key per workspace. No SOC 2 report or SSO today.","Says it's preparing for a SOC 2 Type II audit, and cites Google CASA AL1. SSO is on Enterprise.",{"heading":319,"body":320,"label":321,"note":322},"Undo anything an agent does, in one step","Give each agent its own key, see every change it makes, and take back its work without touching anyone else's.","Start a workspace","Free for one person, with no card. Inviting teammates needs Grove.","Both give people and agents a shared workspace. Fastio offers more storage and built-in AI. Treehouse offers a free plan, safer writes and one-step undo.",{"heading":325,"body":326,"label":321,"note":322},"Try it on a real folder, free","There's no trial clock. Start on Seedling, connect an agent, and upgrade when your team joins.","md","Fastio alternative",[330,333,336,339,342],{"question":331,"answer":332},"Is there a free version of Fastio?","No. Fastio says there is no permanent free tier. Monthly plans start with a 14-day trial that needs a card. Treehouse has a free plan for one person.",{"question":334,"answer":335},"Is Fastio a real filesystem?","For people, largely yes. Its desktop client mounts workspaces in Finder, and apps can open and save files there. Its notes are a separate type from files, even for Markdown.",{"question":337,"answer":338},"Does Fastio have built-in AI?","Yes. Ripley answers questions with citations, and Deep Indexing covers documents and code. It can be turned off per workspace. Treehouse has no built-in AI and doesn't call any models.",{"question":340,"answer":341},"Which is cheaper for a small team?","Usually Fastio. Its Business plan covers up to 10 seats for $49.99 a month, while Treehouse Grove is $12 a member a month. A team of three or fewer can also use Fastio's Starter at $9.99 a month.",{"question":343,"answer":344},"Can I undo what an agent did in Fastio?","You can restore a file to an earlier version, one file at a time, and bring deleted files back from the trash. 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Both give a team and its agents a shared workspace, with a web app, a desktop client, an MCP server and sharing.","Fastio is bigger and cheaper per seat. It offers far more storage, built-in AI with cited answers, branded portals and file requests, from a company with a long history in storage.","Treehouse is smaller and more careful with your work. It has a free plan, a stale edit is kept as a conflicted copy rather than replacing anyone's work, and you can undo everything one agent did in one step.","hmBLOIM2I_6O0mbX3YnsLAxM3l7V6pZzg9AY_p-Li-s",1793370244831]